Product Developer jobs in Germany

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Ensure the availability of materials, which support the strategic marketing & design direction to enable commercial success. Finds or develops the right materials according to calendar timelines, target prices, sourcing policy, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of the Team Leader or a Manager Materials Development be the key contact and consultant for all material related questions for all internal interfaces
• Contribute to all cross-functional discussions related to materials topics, actively participate in the material selection process and support material consolidation to improve material efficiency

• Build and maintain a close relationship with interfaces such as Design, Creation Center Product Development, Material Sourcing, Quality and Suppliers
• Ensure availability of correct materials data in FlexPLM (technical data, cost, toolbox, lifecycle)
• Give input for suitable sources for new material developments (aligned with material sourcing strategy) and guide suppliers to translate the design vision into new, innovative material which meet commercial needs of the brand
• Under the guidance of the Team Leader or a Manager Materials Development, kick-off and monitor all material developments (work together with suppliers, Sourcing, Quality and Creation Center Development) and be responsible for initial material price negotiations with suppliers (direct development) during development stage
• Ensure that all selected materials are tested and approved by Materials Quality in accordance with applicable calendar timelines
• Cooperate with cross-functional team to create a focused material toolbox and coach the cross-functional team on how to improve material efficiencies
• Set up and maintain the materials library and work on continuously improving the setup and tools for the product creation teams
• Provide latest information on material trends to the respective Business Units/ categories also by gathering innovative input from relevant fairs, supplier meetings, apparel material show etc

Key Relationships:

• Marketing

• Design
• Sourcing
• BOPS (Creation Center Development, Costing)
• Suppliers T2

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business
• Ability to anticipate problems, offers solutions, and address issues with materials in order to meet the Design team’s aesthetic goals and financial targets
• Ability to cope with change
• Ability to accept and meet critical deadlines with good planning and organization skills
• Fluent English (verbal and written)
• Strong IT skills (e-mail, MS office)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four year college or university degree in textile engineering or comparable degree/education
• 5 years of relevant work experience in the fabric production industry (knowledge of manufacturing process, fabrics, mechanical and chemical treatments)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Senior Manager in Product Marketing, you lead the development of product marketing strategies that align with brand and business objectives while driving local market acceleration. You combine a global strategy with a strong local mindset, ensuring consumer-centric decision-making and the creation of compelling product assortments tailored to local needs. Through agility and entrepreneurial leadership, you guide cross-functional teams, manage complex timelines, and deliver insight-driven execution that influences category growth and elevates brand presence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a strong understanding ofBrand vision, strategic roadmap, and financial objectives to ensure product direction and goals remain aligned with brand positioning and evolving market demands.
• Align seasonal product portfolio plans and tactics with strategic direction and category priorities to achieve business goals and maximize consumer impact.
• Translate market and consumer insights into actionable growth opportunities within the business unit, with a focus on local market acceleration.
• Drive the execution of the product creation process and key milestones, coordinating cross-functional teams to meet timelines, quality standards, and strategic targets.
• Deliver against product creation milestones, ensure teams follow the agreed development calendar, and influence efficient range development.
• Manage accurate and complete product master data to enable downstream systems and processes.
• Own the creation and maintenance of product master data and ensure all relevant attributes are accurately managed to meet go-to-market and sales readiness milestones for assigned product ranges.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration and ensure Design, Development, and Marketing teams are aligned on product creation goals and timelines.
• Cultivate and strengthen collaboration across aJ BU and Global BU to identify opportunities and ensure strategic consistency.
• Lead the analysis of market trends, consumer behavior, and product performance to optimize product offerings and future range planning.
• Drive KPI performance (Financial KPIs) and provide actionable insights to optimize planning and product performance reviews.
• With entrepreneurship mindset, proactively identify growth opportunities and lead initiatives that deliver measurable business impact.

Key Relationships:

• Partnerships across global functions, markets, and creation centers.
• aJ/global Business Unit
• aJ Business Unit
• Cross-functional teams, Designer, Operation (Developer).
• External partners, key accounts, and market stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• In-depth knowledge of sport/style industry dynamics and product category expertise
• Strong familiarity with cross-functional marketing and go-to-market planning
• Advanced analytical, strategic, and tactical planning proficiency
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Clear and engaging presentation capabilities for internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to resolve conflicts and align cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience executing change management in fast-paced environments
• Strong consumer-centric mindset in product decisions
• Creative and lateral thinking to challenge the status quo and drive innovation
• Ability to travel and represent brand passion for sports

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree (BA/MA) in Marketing, Business Administration, Product Management, or related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in Product Marketing or Category Management, specifically in Footwear.
• Deep understanding of consumer behavior and segmentation across markets.
• Familiarity with global retail environments, e-commerce, and omnichannel strategies.
• Proven track record in leading product creation processes from concept to launch.
• Fluent in English and Japanese (native level).
• Digital fluency in Office 365 applications and product and marketing tools.

France-Île-de-France; Germany-Düsseldorf; Netherlands-Kerkrade; Spain-Madrid; United Kingdom-Hemel Hempstead

ADay in the Lifeof the EMEA Data Product Manager & Owner:

You’ll begin your day by reviewing data products performance and reliability signals across your portfolio - usage and adoption trends, data quality scores, pipeline SLAs/SLOs, and customer feedback. You’ll meet with internal customers to connect business outcomes to clear data products objectives, refining priorities to unlock measurable value.

When EMEAspecific regulatory constraints (e.g., GDPR) arise, you’ll partner with Legal, Security, and HR to chart compliant pathways that keep delivery moving.

You will work with data engineering, platform, architecture and governance teams to clarify data contracts, schemas, lineage, and access models, ensuring every increment is productionready and governed by design. You’ll groom the roadmap and backlog, decomposing epics, sharpening acceptance criteria, and balancing new capabilities with technical debt, observability, and cost optimization. You’ll demo recent increments, capture user feedback, and turn it into testable stories that improve usability, trust, and performance. You’ll brief sponsors on value realized and present investment options for the next phases.

On a monthly rhythm, you’ll coordinate with global data and architecture forums to reuse patterns, converge on standards, and ensure EMEA needs are represented in the enterprise roadmap.

As a champion of the data strategy & enablement team, you will drive adoption through excellent product experience - discoverability in the catalog, clear documentation, and dependable service levels that help teams selfserve trustworthy, governed data at scale.

The role:

Reporting to the Data Strategy & Enablement Sr Manager, the EMEA Data Product Manager & Owner is accountable endend for strategy and dayday delivery of data products

You will translate business outcomes into product capabilities, manage scope and trade

Success requires a blend of product strategy, stakeholder leadership, and handson ownership to ship secure, compliant, and scalable data products that power analytics, AI, and operational workflows across the region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product vision & strategy: Define a 12–24‑month vision, value hypotheses, and positioning for EMEA data products, maintain an outcome‑based roadmap aligned with enterprise standards and local needs.
• Backlog ownership & delivery: Convert outcomes into prioritized epics/stories, lead refinement and planning, uphold DoR/DoD, balance features with reliability, observability, cost, and sustainability.
• Value & metrics: Establish VIPs/KPIs/OKRs (adoption, time‑to‑data, data trust, NPS, ROI); run quarterly value reviews, iterate the roadmap based on evidence.
• Data governance by design: Embed privacy, security, quality, and lifecycle controls (policies, lineage, access models, retention, auditability) into every increment, ensure GDPR compliance and data residency adherence.
• Data contracts & semantics: Maintain versioned schemas and contracts, define business rules and semantic layers that ensure interoperability across domains.
• Platform leverage & reusability: Reuse enterprise platforms, patterns, and reference architectures, drive reusability and scale across markets while meeting country‑specific requirements.
• Stakeholder & change leadership: Communicate clearly at all levels; manage dependencies and risks, prepare business cases, Investment Board inputs, release notes, and adoption communications.
• Incident, risk & release management: Triage issues, lead RCA, and prioritize preventative fixes, plan releases and change controls, coordinate rollbacks/hotfixes where needed.
• Enablement & adoption: Publish documentation, examples, and learning paths, champion catalog discoverability, access requests, and community channels.
• Financial stewardship: Own product budgets/forecasts, track benefits realization and ROI, report performance and outcomes to sponsors and Finance partners.
• Global alignment: Partner with global product, platform, and architecture teams to align roadmaps, share learnings, and represent EMEA needs and impact.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7–10+ years across product management/ownership, data platforms, analytics, or digital strategy. Medtech/pharma/consulting experience is a plus.
• Proven success delivering data products from concept to scaled adoption (data product mindset desirable).
• Strong grasp of data privacy (GDPR), regulatory frameworks, security, and AI ethics.
• Practical understanding of ELT/ETL, event streaming, data modeling, semantic layers, and production operations (SLAs/SLOs, observability).
• Expert backlog management, story writing, acceptance testing, and agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban).
• Excellent communication and facilitation, able to influence executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.
• Technical fluency and eagerness for continuous learning in Data & AI capabilities and products.

What do you offer:

• A passion for enabling teams with trustworthy, usable data, and a bias for measurable outcomes.
• Ownership mindset with high accountability for user satisfaction and product reliability.
• Pragmatic product instincts: you simplify, focus, and ship, balancing new value with platform hygiene and cost.
• Curiosity for emerging capabilities (semantic modeling, GenAI augmentation …etc.) and how to apply them responsibly.

What do we offer:

• A chance to shape the EMEA data product portfolio and set enterprise‑wide standards.
• A collaborative, global network and supportive coaching culture focused on your growth.
• Opportunities to lead high‑impact initiatives that advance analytics and AI adoption across diverse markets.
• A coaching culture environment focusing on your success and development!

ADay in the Lifeof the EMEA AI Product Owner:

You’ll begin your day translating business needs into technical requirements, prioritizing features in the backlog, and overseeing the AI product lifecycle to ensure successful, ethical, and valuable implementations. Key responsibilities include defining success criteria, collaborating with data scientists and engineers, and bridging the gap between business goals and AI capabilities.

You will work on initiatives like AgentForce AI, PACE and other new AI opportunities in the region.

You will collaborate with the AI Product Managers, Data Engineering, Platform, Architecture, and Governance teams to clarify data contracts, schemas, lineage, and access models, ensuring each increment is production-ready and guided by design. You’ll groom the roadmap and write user stories to add to the backlog, break down epics, refine acceptance criteria, and balance new features with technical debt, observability, and cost efficiency. You’ll demo recent increments, gather user feedback, and turn it into testable stories that enhance usability, trust, and performance. You’ll brief sponsors on the value delivered and present investment options for the next phases.

Your role is more technically demanding, requiring an understanding of AI technologies and ethical considerations. You must navigate challenges like data privacy and compliance with data protection regulations. Additionally, you will manage AI bias by providing diverse datasets for model training and using bias detection mechanisms to monitor AI outputs.

On a monthly rhythm, you’ll coordinate with global data and architecture forums to reuse patterns, converge on standards, and ensure EMEA needs are represented in the enterprise roadmap.

As a champion of the data strategy & enablement team, you will drive adoption through excellent product experience - discoverability in the catalog, clear documentation, and dependable service levels that help teams selfserve trustworthy, governed data at scale.

The role:

Reporting to the Product Ownership Sr Manager, the EMEA AI Product Owner is accountable for the dayday delivery of data products

You will translate business outcomes into product capabilities, manage scope and trade

Success requires a blend of AI technology expertise, stakeholder leadership, and hands-on ownership to deliver secure, compliant solutions for the EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backlog ownership & delivery: Convert outcomes into prioritized epics/stories, lead refinement and planning, uphold DoR/DoD, balance features with reliability, observability, cost, and sustainability.
• Value & metrics: Establish VIPs/KPIs/OKRs (adoption, time‑to‑data, data trust, NPS, ROI); run quarterly value reviews, iterate the roadmap based on evidence.
• Privacy and Data Governance by design: Embed privacy, security, quality, and lifecycle controls (policies, lineage, access models, retention, auditability) into every increment, ensure GDPR compliance and data residency adherence.
• Platform leverage & reusability: Reuse enterprise platforms, patterns, and reference architectures, drive reusability and scale across markets while meeting country‑specific requirements.
• Stakeholder & change leadership: Communicate clearly at all levels; manage dependencies and risks, prepare business cases, Investment Board inputs, release notes, and adoption communications.
• Incident, risk & release management: Triage issues, lead RCA, and prioritize preventative fixes, plan releases and change controls, coordinate rollbacks/hotfixes where needed.
• Enablement & adoption: Publish documentation, examples, and learning paths, champion catalog discoverability, access requests, and community channels.
• Financial stewardship: Own product budgets/forecasts, track benefits realization and ROI, report performance and outcomes to sponsors and Finance partners.
• Global alignment: Partner with global product, platform, and architecture teams to align roadmaps, share learnings, and represent EMEA needs and impact.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7–10+ years across product management/ownership, data platforms, analytics, or digital strategy. Experience in medtech, pharma/consulting is a plus.
• Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, and data science concepts. Proven success delivering AI products from concept to scaled adoption. Strong understanding of ethical AI considerations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in defining product roadmaps and requirements.
• Familiarity with AI tools and a data-driven approach.
• Strong grasp of data privacy (GDPR), regulatory frameworks, security, and AI ethics.
• Expert backlog management, story writing, acceptance testing, and agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban).
• Excellent communication and facilitation, able to influence executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.
• Technical fluency and eagerness for continuous learning in Data & AI capabilities and products.

What do you offer:

• Ownership mindset with high accountability for user satisfaction and product reliability.
• • Pragmatic product instincts: you simplify, focus, and drive value creation and delivery of AI products
• • Learning agility and curiosity about emerging capabilities and responsible ways to apply them.

What do we offer:

• A chance to drive innovation by delivering meaningful AI solutions across the EMEA region.
• A collaborative, global network and supportive coaching culture focused on your growth.
• Opportunities to lead high‑